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aforesaid; which report and map, or a copy thereof, shall be depositedwith the town clerk of said tribe, on or before the first day of Octobernext, and shall remain open for inspection to all, for the space of twentydays thereafter; and if any member or members of said tribe shallobject to the partition or division so made by the said commissioners, orshall deem himself or themselves aggrieved thereby, he or they may,within ten days thereafter, give notice thereof to the said commission-ers, who shall, within twenty days thereafter, meet to hear and deter-mine such grievances, and take testimony if necessary; and after suchhearing, shall have power to alter or modify such partition, if, in theirjudgment, any alteration or modification is necessary, in order to doequal and exact justice to all parties in interest.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That, after the said report shall befinally completed, the commissioners shall cause [three copies] of thesaid report, and of the map accompanying the same, as finally agreedupon and settled, to be made and signed by said commissioners, onecopy of which shall be deposited in the office of the secretary of saidTerritory, one copy in the office of the clerk of the county within whichsaid lands are situated, and the other shall be transmitted to the Presidentof the United States , who shall thereupon cause patents to be issued tothe several individuals named in said report, for the lands so apportionedto them respectively, by which the said persons shall be authorized tohold the said lands in fee simple to themselves and their heirs and assigns.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the said report and map shallbe filed with the secretary of said Territory, and in the clerk’s office ofsaid county, and shall also be transmitted to the President on or beforethe first day of January next; and after the same shall have been filedand transmitted to the President, as aforesaid, the said Brothertown In-dians, and each and every of them, shall then be deemed to be, and fromthat time forth are hereby declared to be, citizens of the United States to ail intents and purposes, and shall be entitled to all the rights, privi-leges, and immunities of such citizens, and shall, in all respects, be sub-ject to the laws of the United States and of the Territory of Wisconsin,in the same manner as other citizens of said Territory; and the jurisdic-tion of the United States and of said Territory shall be extended over thesaid township or reservation now held by them in the same manner asover other parts of said Territory; and their rights as a tribe or nation,and their power of making or executing their own laws, usages, or cus-toms, as such tribe, shall cease and determine : Provided, however,That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to deprive them of theright to any annuity now due to them from the State of New York orthe United States , but they shall be entitled to receive any such annuityin the same manner as though this act had not been passed.
Approved, March 3, 1839.
Chap. LXXXIV .—Jin Act making an appropriation for the protection of theNorthern and Northwestern frontier of the United States .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited. States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of fivehundred thousand dollars, in addition to a former appropriation, shallbe, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any unappropriatedmoney in the Treasury to defray any expenses which have been or maybe incurred in protecting the Northern and Northwestern frontier ofthe United States , by the employment of steamboats, the transportationof troops and supplies, or any other extraordinary expenses attending theoperations of the army in the defence of that frontier, and by calling out,under the direction of the President of the United States , any part ofthe militia or volunteers, according to the provisions of the constitution
Proceedings tobe had if e jec-tion is made.
Copy of reportand map to bedeposited, &c.
Proviso.
Statute III.MarchS, 1839.[Obsolete.]
Appropriation.